Near Miss by JoeBlack

Lightwave • (none) • posted on Jan 22, 2006

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I know pretty bland for my first LW pic, just trying to get a feel for it. I was following a pretty cool photorealistic Earth tutorial, and was surprised how well it turned out. I was trying to do an animation with this scene, the asteroid flying by the planet. But I couldn't get my starry background to map right using the "Textured Environment" plugin. No matter how big the res was, the stars were always too big; reducing the res or scale in the plugin had no effect. And the "StarSphere" option didn't quite work out either. Tutorial: http://personal.southern.edu/~dascott/tutorial01/nasa-earth.htm#LW56 You may need to find resource images for it first.

Comments (9)

Twiggy05

9:54AM | Sun, 22 January 2006

excellent first pic Joe.. great textures space is a wonderful thing to do :o) u done a great job here

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Blarghd

9:55AM | Sun, 22 January 2006

well despite the problems it came out nice,.. its good when tutorials work out the way thier supposed to

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CarolSassy

10:44AM | Sun, 22 January 2006

It looks like a great space scene to me! Nice work! (:

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oooZENOooo

12:28PM | Sun, 22 January 2006

Well done Joe! I hope you learned a lot from that tut. Thanks for sharing the link and even more, sharing this cool looking render!

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Tammy

12:29PM | Sun, 22 January 2006

I think this turned out nice, my first LW pic didn't turn out this good and I really admire you for attempting animation with your first one.

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petes

6:48PM | Sun, 22 January 2006

what a great start joe!! looks good. my only cit is how lit the front of the meteroid is. you got almost pure black on the earth, but on that, it is lit? if you want a little "fill" light, try using a bluer light so it don't look like the key light. either way, looks great!

JoeBlack

10:54AM | Mon, 23 January 2006

petes: yea, the asteroid is lit by a light behind the camera, which I set to only affect the asteroid. Otherwise the asteroid wouldn't show up. I didn't think about the light colour. Thanks :)

warreng_online

2:30PM | Mon, 23 January 2006

very nice! But Joe, you know what they say about throwing rocks.

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